NASA’S NEW FAQ

Here’s a sad truth: NASA, a government agency that has spawned literally thousands of cool products via its ongoing research to make space travel more viable and that has inspired millions of kids to reach for the stars as astronauts, astronomers, astrophysicists, astro-technologists, and so on, has had divert time and resources to create an FAQ (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html) on its website deflating the 2012 End of the World nonsense.

For the true believer (ie, idiot/moron) science with all its gismos and gadgets and gobbledygook doublespeak can never convince them that the world ain’t comin’ to an end. True believers (ie, idiots/morons) want the world to come to an end so they don’t have to keep working at MacDonalds.

Still, NASA insists that no scientific evidence exists that the world will end in 2012 or any time soon for that matter.

NASA points out that the Maya calendar simply refers to the end of a cycle, not existence. Presumably, if you’re a true believe (idiot/moron) and you forget to hop over to Office Depot in mid-December and purchase a new calendar, when December 31 rolls around and you’ve got no January 1 on the next page, IT’S THE END OF THE FREAKIN’ WORLD!

Previously, I discussed the mysterious Planet X, aka Nibiru that allegedly passes near earth every 3600 years and causes all sorts of mayhem and is destined to crash into us this go-round. NASA debunks it thusly:

“Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles."

And, then of course, there’s that pesky solar flare that I discussed a few weeks ago. Supposedly, a giant solar flare will jet out from the sun, travel 93 million miles and burn us to a briquette. Not going to happen. NASA points out that the sun, as big and powerful as it is, doesn’t have enough energy to send a solar flare 93 million miles through space.

It’s sad that during this time of budget cuts and economic woes that America’s space agency has to use valuable resources to address the hysterical concerns of the true believers (ie, idiots/morons) concerning the end of the world.